mailing list hiccup

Our SMTP server on the master system stopped answering for a little while. I sent a hangup to inetd and it started behaving again. Some list articles were delayed, and some are sitting at our alternate MX host right now and will eventually make it to the list. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: unstripped stuff in /usr/lib

From: Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Policy, section `3.3.2 Libraries' says that all shared libraries have to > be stripped (unless they are part of a debugging package). > > I'm not sure if we should treat static libraries the same way, since some > people might need the symbols for debu

Re: news gateways

From: Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Does this mean we shouldn't include the list addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > in our web pages? If so, I guess I have to fix some pages... I don't have a problem with the list addresses being in the WWW pages. We should be cognizant that people do tro

Re: developer lists to leave news gateway

From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What is going on here? I thought we were talking about the issue? You must have missed last week's debate because of your school papers. If you think the problems are because of the WWW archive, and from the evidence you've presented to me personaly t

Taking over tkman

If noone objects, I'll take tkman. The version we have seems to be obsolete since August. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | mo

Re: bashisms

Kai Henningsen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian Bridgett) wrote on 27.11.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > There are alot of scripts which use unnecessary bashisms. Apart from complex > > scripts most of these can be easily changed to conform to the POSIX shell. > > This has the added advanta

Re: Debian-devel subscriber count

> > Here's one lurker sticking his head up for a second. I lurk so I get some > picture of what's happening on the hamm front, beyond what I get on > debian-user. I don't post because I don't develop (yet ;). At the risk of posting a gratuitous message, me too. I like running my machine near t

Re: news gateways

On 14 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Does this mean we shouldn't include the list addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > in our web pages? If so, I guess I have to fix some pages... > > I don't have a problem with the list addresses being in the WW

intent to package: aalib

I'm going to package aalib, which will soon be used by xaos. Aalib is a neat ascii art library. It lets programs write to an array representing "video memory", and then it renders the image as best it can into text. The results are suprisingly good. Actually, I have already packaged it, but I'm wa

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

'Scott K. Ellis wrote:' > >On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote: >> Why can't we do the following: >> >> In both bo-updates and hamm: >> libc5: No conflicts, no depends (predepends on ldso, of course) >> (solves the problem of not being able to upgrade easily) [...] >This still force

WvDial 0.1 available as a Debian package

Hi all, I'm not an "official" Debian developer yet -- though my PGP key has been signed now so hopefully this will accelerate the process -- but rather than wait, I've released WvDial 0.1-1 on my own. I'll attach the announcement (posted to comp.os.linux.announce) below. Tell me if it works for

Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-12

On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Richard Braakman wrote: > Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > wml-1.3.1-1 Hello! :) If you don't mind, mind if I give WML a try? :) (i.e. to do a non-maintainer upload of wml_1.4.5-0.1 if I manage to compile it on my computer. :) Thanks! Anthony -- Anthony F

Re: RAS on an NT box.

> I need to connect a Linux box to an NT server over a dial-up line. The NT > box uses a "Remote Access Server". I remember seeing a discussion of this > recently, but can't find the reference in my mail archives. Can anyone > clue me in as to what package/howto I need to look at to deal with this?

Re: RAS on an NT box.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Scheetz) wrote on 13.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I need to connect a Linux box to an NT server over a dial-up line. The NT > box uses a "Remote Access Server". I remember seeing a discussion of this > recently, but can't find the reference in my mail archives. Can anyo

Re: news gateways

On Sun, Dec 14 1997 1:09 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > We should be cognizant that people do troll for mailto: URLs and spam them. This is the real problem IMO with the problem below. > The major problem is that the WWW list

Re: 68k test machine?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding "Re: 68k test machine?" of 12:23 PM -0800 1997-12-13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There's a box in the garage here that says "Mac IIx". I've been holding on >to it hoping that it might someday support the 68k port. Any chance of >that? Yes. In fact, it

Plan to package xscavenger

Hello all! I intend to package xscavenger, a lode runner like game (remember the good old commodore 64 days?). To be honest, I already did. I also contacted the author, and we work together on a new upstream release. The whole thing is GPL, and it includes a level editor and some dozen levels,

Re: Packages available for expert maintainers or newbies

On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Other available packages also for new maintainers: > > syslinux Boot loader for Debian Disks Sorry, but *I* am the maintainer of `syslinux', and I don't want to orphan it. So, I'll go on maintaining it, if noone objects. -- Juan Ces

new GTK+ release

There is a new GTK+ release 0.99.0 . This is coordinated with the upcoming GIMP 0.99.16 release. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

/sbin/hwclock and /etc/init.d/boot

I have the 2.7.1-2 version of util-linux installed. It appears that the /sbin/clock program is no longer available as it has been replaced by /sbin/hwclock. However, there is still a part of /etc/init.d/boot that calls clock to set up the hardware clock and system clock correspondence. # # S

Re: /sbin/hwclock and /etc/init.d/boot

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have the 2.7.1-2 version of util-linux installed. It appears that >the /sbin/clock program is no longer available as it has been >replaced by /sbin/hwclock. However, there is still a part of >/etc/init.d/boot that calls c

Re: RAS on an NT box.

On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote: > > I need to connect a Linux box to an NT server over a dial-up line. The NT > > box uses a "Remote Access Server". I remember seeing a discussion of this > > recently, but can't find the reference in my mail archives. Can anyone > > clue me in as to what

Re: I take debmake

On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 08:45:27PM +0100, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: [snip] > I have taken over the maintenance of debmake (on a temporary basis). > Some time ago, Ian said he was going to write a replacement for it, so I'm > just going to keep debmake frozen and will fix bugs if I receive suitab

Re: /sbin/hwclock and /etc/init.d/boot

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >My immediate problem is that I have the hardware clock set to GMT and > >my system clock is never getting set to the local timezone. > > This might have been a bug in sysvinit-2.72-1 or -2 Yes, those versions

Re: I take debmake

Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 08:45:27PM +0100, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > [snip] > > I have taken over the maintenance of debmake (on a temporary basis). > > Some time ago, Ian said he was going to write a replacement for it, so I'm > > just going to

Ray Dassen, read this!

Email to you is bouncing. --- Start of forwarded message --- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 20:10:44 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Leiden University, Dept. of Mathematics & Co

Re: I take debmake

Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about using debhelper rather than having another packaging suite? IIRC > Ian said that debmake was "broken" in some respects and that Debian should > have a decent packaging tool - IMO debhelper fits that nicely :-) I don't believe that debhelper

Re: Ray Dassen, read this!

On Dec 14, Guy Maor wrote > Email to you is bouncing. Thanks, I just phoned Ray, he will have a word with his sysadmins in about 11 hours. -- Bart Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] At Lunalabs, where the Lunatech Research http://www.lunatech.com/ future is made today.. Pa

Re: /sbin/hwclock and /etc/init.d/boot

>My immediate problem is that I have the hardware clock set to GMT and >my system clock is never getting set to the local timezone. Do you see "/etc/localtime" when you type "date +%Z" ? If so, then I'd say that you ran in a bug with the timezones package. Just purge it and install it again

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, David Engel wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 11:47:50AM -0500, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > > hamm: libc5-altdev, depends on hamm-libc5, > > OK. > > > > conflicts with bo-libc5-dev and > > > hamm-libc6-dev, > > Unnecessary.

Re: Ray Dassen, read this!

Previously Bart Schuller wrote: > Thanks, I just phoned Ray, he will have a word with his sysadmins in > about 11 hours. This is (one of) Ray's sysadmins. The problem should be fixed by now. We seem to have had a corrupt NIS database. Wichert. --

Re: Plan to package xscavenger

On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Hello all! > > I intend to package xscavenger, a lode runner like game (remember the good > old commodore 64 days?). > > To be honest, I already did. I also contacted the author, and we work > together on a new upstream release. > > The whole th

Re: Bug#988: `script' is insecure, and general tty insecurity

Hello, Mr. Nag. You've probably already been notified of this, but many of the URLs generated by this `nag' script are incorrect. For instance, you say: "Nag" == Nag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The history of this bug can be found at: > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/988.html or Shou

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

> I heard that the original DEC vt100? terminals had delete there and so they Nope. The VT100 *actually* had both keys there: +--++--++--+ |~`||BS||BK| +--++--++--+ +---++--+ | ||DL| | |+--+ +--+ |+--+ | RET ||\|| +--++--+ where "RET" was labeled RET

FUN USE AND INSTALL DIRECTLY ON X WINDOW

Hi I use debian 1,3,1. for the future version de debian, it's possible in french ? it's possible to mask the password? ( all ) Why debian it's not installed directly with X Window ? X+ Excuse for my english, it's not correct Bye -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u

Re: Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?

Note also that the *shell* issue is hard because it's hardcoded into scripts in various ways, so you really need /bin/sh to work whatever it is -- the use of "cp", however, can be dealt with by adding /usr/gnu/bin to your path :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubs

Re: unstripped stuff in /usr/lib

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We could let the -dev versions of packages have diversions of the > libraries to unstripped versions, and have the runtime versions have > stripped versions. Since most of the times -dev packages are needed to compile only (headers and the symlink from lib.so), I thin

Re: Plan to package xscavenger

On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 10:32:51PM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > Hello all! > > > > I intend to package xscavenger, a lode runner like game (remember the good > > old commodore 64 days?). > > > AFAIK, we already have a xscavenger package,

Re: Plan to package xscavenger

On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 12:20:10AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 10:32:51PM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello all! > > > > > > I intend to package xscavenger, a lode runner like game (remember the good

Re: FUN USE AND INSTALL DIRECTLY ON X WINDOW

On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 11:53:07PM +0100, TABLEAU wrote: > Hi > > I use debian 1,3,1. > > for the future version de debian, it's possible in french ? Maybe. Some people are working on internationalization and localization. However, it is a big task. If you want to help, mail to debian-i18n@lists

Re: FUN USE AND INSTALL DIRECTLY ON X WINDOW

TABLEAU wrote: >Hi > >I use debian 1,3,1. > >for the future version de debian, it's possible in french ? Some people are working on internationalisation - see > >it's possible to mask the password? ( all ) ?? > >Why debian it's not inst